1921
The deadline is counted until the moment of return to Moscow.

Commission tasks:

1) To verify on site what portion of work has been completed (on the construction of Algemy) and in particular what portion of materials has already been used on the completed section of the route and what remains beyond that.

2) The Commission must clarify what the real possibilities are for safeguarding materials and their return in the event that construction of Algemy is discontinued.

3) The Commission must clarify what the conditions are (in the sense of material expenditure, etc.) for transferring the Algemy construction from shock enterprises to regular enterprises.

4) The Commission must clarify what the conditions will be for conducting work in general and, in particular, the conditions for utilizing materials already present on site provided work continues without laying rails.

Lenin

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NOTE TO THE PEOPLE'S COMMISSARIAT OF INTERNAL AFFAIRS
TO M. F. VLADIMIRSKY
May 17, 1921

Comrade Vladimirsky!

How stands the matter with the regionalization of the RSFSR?

It would seem that one ought to hurry with this matter and coordinate it with Gosplan.

Please write, who is on the commission, how is the work proceeding, etc.

With communist greetings,

V. Ulyanov (Lenin)

Printed from the manuscript copy.

"Approve the draft of the commission assignment proposed by Comrade Lenin. Propose that VSNKh and Gosplan submit the names of their candidates within 24 hours" (Protocol No. 212, item 7).

LENIN COLLECTED WORKS

OUTLINE OF A SPEECH AT THE TRADE UNION CONGRESS*
May 1921

1. Transitional examination from 3rd to 4th year.

2. From the People's Will to social-democracy in Russia, from II to III International in the world.

3. 1st year: 1886–1903. ((17))

4. 2nd year: 1903–1917. ((14))

5. 3rd year: 1917–1921. ((4))

6. 4th year: 1921–? (1931)

7. The "not" is the final and decisive battle. But... it is near (years).

8. On a world scale victory is difficult (bis, ter), but certain.

9. Checkmate to capitalism and capitalists.

10. Alias**: the cause of communism in Russia will be solid.

11. The division of private property. The unification of labor against property.

12. India "does not count"? Doch !***

13. The "Versailles Treaty"?

13 bis. International trade.

14. The economic front is difficult.

15. Is the proletariat being declassed? Yes! What are the conclusions? Petty-proprietarian ideology.

16. Large-scale production and the machine — the material and psychological base of the proletariat. Inde**** declassing******.

17. Politics plus, economics minus.

18. Steadfastness, party spirit.

19. The economic front.

Transitional examinations: grain, fuel. 1917
(food tax)
1918)
1919)
1920 versus 1921

20. Economic experience already exists — build systematically, unflinchingly, firmly onward.

21. Labor discipline, increased productivity of labor, organization of labor, increase in quantity of products, merciless struggle against slack-handedness and bureaucratism.

22. By this you shall conquer.

* The outline of the speech was prepared by V. I. Lenin for his address at the IV Congress of Trade Unions, held May 17–25, 1921.

** —Otherwise.

*** —And yet!

**** —Hence.

***** See Works, vol. XXVI, pp. 392–394.